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The Evolution of Principia Mathematica

Bertrand Russell's Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition
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Originally published in 1910, Principia Mathematica led to the development of mathematical logic and computers and thus to information sciences. It became a model for modern analytic philosophy and remains an important work. In the late 1960s the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Canada obtained Russell's papers, letters and library. These archives contained the manuscripts for the new Introduction and three Appendices that Russell added to the second edition in 1925. Also included was another manuscript, 'The Hierarchy of Propositions and Functions', which was divided up and re-used to create the final changes for the second edition. These documents provide fascinating insight, including Russell's attempts to work out the theorems in the flawed Appendix B, 'On Induction'. An extensive introduction describes the stages of the manuscript material on the way to print and analyzes the proposed changes in the context of the development of symbolic logic after 1910.

Author Biography:

Bernard Linsky is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.
Release date NZ
June 9th, 2011
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
2 Plates, black and white; 1 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified
Pages
418
Dimensions
181x255x27
ISBN-13
9781107003279
Product ID
10391516

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